Elizabeth Akwenaboye Udie, Victor Atah Abanyam & Andeshi Liwhuliwhue Agwu
Abstract
The study adopted descriptive survey research design to ascertain the areas of ICT utilization for enhancing service delivery in agricultural education in higher institutions in Cross River State. The study had 3 purposes, 3 research questions and 3 hypotheses. The population of the study was 87 respondents. All the members of the population were used for the study. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire titled UIEAESDQ. The instrument was validated by three experts in Agricultural Education and Measurement and Evaluation in the College of Education of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike. The reliability of the instrument was established as .84 using Cronbach alpha technique. Data collected were analysed using mean, standard deviation and z-test. It was found from the result of the study that the areas of ICT utilization for enhancing service delivery are: instructional delivery (16 items), academic research (15 items) and administration (16 items). It was therefore concluded that there are 47 areas of ICT utilization for enhancing service delivery in Agricultural Education in higher institutions. Among the recommendations made were that school administrators should fully adopt modern ICT facilities to enhance service delivery in schools.